Talk:Willits station

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Requested move 11 December 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 03:47, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Willits station → Willits Depot – Official name as referred to by the NRHP; maintain similar conventions with other depots such as Grand Canyon Depot, Kelso Depot, Santa Fe Passenger and Freight Depot, others as per WP:CONSISTENT. Willits Depot returns more relevant returns than Willits station on Google as per WP:PRECISION. Willits Depot is natural as per WP:USSTATIONS: "In some cases, a station has a common name that does not include the word 'station'." MJ (talk) 02:39, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. NRHP names are descriptive and generally not grounded in historical usage. The people who fill out the registration forms supply them, and then they become writ. That's fine for NRHP's internal purposes but that shouldn't determine what we call things when we have our own guidelines. Looking through the Google results I see plenty of examples of "Willits depot" (as opposed to "Willits Depot") which suggests strongly that this isn't a proper name, and if it's not a proper name then it shouldn't be capitalized. In US parlance depot and station are (at least now) interchangeable (yes, there's a distinction of sorts and no it's not relevant in 2020). I'd say the article is right where it ought to be. Mackensen (talk) 12:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for the reasons Mackensen eloquently stated. Except for a tiny handful of stations like Saint Paul Union Depot, "Depot" in article names is almost always an artifact of the NRHP nomination rather than any official name. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.